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A player with a
grade 2 turf toe
injury presents with swelling and pain during weight bearing and often guard against passive dorsiflexion. They can many times be shot up, taped, given an unyielding insole, and returned to finish the game.
The typical football player with a grade 2 turf toe injury may or may not be placed in a boot for just a couple of days
then treated with the same regimen as for grade1 (except longer) and will miss one to two weeks of competition but may have persistent symptoms during games or practice upon returning to play.
Since in a grade 2 injury the player will definitely know when it happened, I suspect that Brown sustained this type of injury.
But they may try to have him "rub some dirt on it" and shoot him up and try to treat him as a grade 1. I hope this is not the case and he has only a grade 1. Even with a grade 1, they need to give him at least a couple of days of rest from practice. Of course, we'll see.
I would rule out grade 3 (complete tear) in Brown, as this is an excruciatingly painful injury that you cannot be shot up and return.
This injury typically takes 4-6 weeks to heal....if it heals at all. If it doesn't, surgery is necessary, leading to a good 3-4 month rehab.
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Duane Brown's status is uncertain as the Texans head into their Week 3 game against the Ravens. He's suffering from turf toe.
Brown is wearing a walking boot on his right foot and will for a day or two. He isn't sure if he'll practice this week.
"That's what it looks like right now," Brown said on CSN's SportsTalk Live about being a game-time decision. "We have practice tomorrow, Thursday and Friday. We'll just see, man. I really can't tell you how it's gonna work out. I'd love to be out there at Baltimore this weekend. But I really don't know right now."
Brown said turf toe is an injury he needs to be careful to not re-injure.
"I need to be smart with it," Brown said after his television appearance. "I'm not trying to rush back but I want to get back as soon as possible."
Brown played in 78 of 82 snaps on Sunday.
After left guard Wade Smith rolled into his right foot, Brown missed just four snaps. He had his foot taped and returned for the rest of the game. He said when it first happened, his ankle hurt but that pain eventually subsided. He said his adrenaline helped him get through the game.
"Doing pretty good," Brown said on STL. "Had a bit of a scare. Had someone fall on me. Injured my right big toe. It's a pretty bad case of turf toe. Just taking it one day at at time, see how it heals by the end of the week."
If the Texans and Brown are not "smart" in bringing him back, he may soon find himself dealing with an extension of his tear, possibly to grade 3.
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The tentative realignments of football districts and classifications by the Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) looks favorable for the Chiefland, as the Indians move down to Class 1A District 5. Schools are assigned to classifications by population, and to districts by geography, and Chiefland High School now falls into a smaller population category.
Chiefland football head coach Ajay Ulmer likes the Indians' chances in the new district to which they've tentatively been assigned.
Former Bronson basketball head coach Kelly Beckham took his Gainesville Hurricanes to the Tampa Hoops Classic last week, beating Oak Ridge (Tenn.) 64-49 and Thomas Jefferson (Brooklyn, N.Y.) 70-52 to ride the tournament bracket into the third round. At press time, the Canes were set to face Orlando Olympia in the semifinal, Olympia having beaten Tampa Berkeley Prep 69-64 and Clearwater 65-44.
Day One
Chiefland vs. Interlachen
It took two overtimes to do it, but Chiefland boys finally got the upper hand for a 66-63 win over Interlachen, a streaky team that put the Indians down the first week of the season. Chiefland's defensive hustle kept them in the game even when their turnovers threatened to give it away. For every giveaway on the offensive end, the Indians grabbed a pick at the other end. When it counted, they finally shut the door.
Bronson vs. West Shore
This year in sports saw extraordinary achievement, obstacles overcome and once-in-a-lifetime luck. It also saw the saddest sports story we've ever had to print – the untimely death at age 54 of beloved Sports Editor Claude Lewis. Lewis was on his way to watch Chiefland football play Hamilton County, and never got to see that game. He was succeeded by veteran sportswriter Jenna McKenna, but he can never be replaced.
Fans of Chiefland football must have hollered on the day after Christmas when, with 10:16 left in the Motor City Bowl against Central Michigan, Florida Atlantic QB Rusty Smith drilled the football into the arms of CHS alum Cortez Gent as he stepped into the left end zone. It was the insurance TD for the Owls, who'd come back from an opening deficit against the favored Chippewas and would go on to win 24-21.
After a disruptive power outage killed the lights and the rhythm of the game, Chiefland boys needed patience and persistence to get the upper hand on Ft. White Thursday, though did, at last. Finally breaking open the fourth quarter, the Indians in blue downed the red team 56-42.
"It's a district win and we'll take it," said Chiefland head coach Mark Lundy.
Hawthorne rolls on undefeated, and Bronson basketball is taking a hard look in the mirror, trying to decide what to fix first. The Eagles lost 73-55 Friday to the district-leading Hornets and must now look to retool for the second half of the season.
With leading scorer James Rivers still out of action, nursing a sore ankle, the Bronson Eagles took the sting out of the Lafayette Mayo Hornets on Friday night Dec. 19, and flew to a 73-56 win before a half filled gym in Bronson.
The Eagles took their first lead as the first quarter came to an end 14-12. The Hornets continued to keep pace with the Eagles and trailed by just three points, thanks to a 3-point basket by Antwan Brown as the first half ended with the Eagles leading 27-24.
In perhaps the most aggressive and skillful play that the Lady Eagles have faced this season, Bronson held their own in the first half of the soccer match last week against the Fort White Indians, losing in the second half 2-0.

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On June 20, producers announced that unless business improved, July 1 would be the last performance. Producers have not released tickets past the 3 PM matinee on July 1, and the official website for the revival states that this will be the final week of performances.
The new, multimedia staging of Superstar, shaped by Tony-winning director Des McAnuff (The Who's Tommy, Jersey Boys), first debuted in an extended, sold-out run last summer at Ontario's Stratford Festival, nabbing strong critical reviews and the blessing of its writers, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice.
Prior to the start of Broadway previews on March 1, Superstar played a Nov. 18-Dec. 31, 2012, engagement at the La Jolla Playhouse. When it closes, it will have played 116 performances and 24 previews.
The new, high-tech production is the second Broadway revival of the biblical rock opera that debuted on Broadway in 1971 at the Mark Hellinger Theatre for a 711-performance run. A 2000 revival, which played the Ford Center, lasted 161 performances.
A cast album from the revival has not been announced.
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Jesus Christ Superstar earned Tony, Drama Desk and Drama League Award nominations for Best Musical Revival, and Josh Young received a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Musical and won a Theatre World Award for his role as Judas Iscariot.
Paul Nolan leads the cast as Jesus Christ, with 2012 Tony Award nominee Josh Young as Judas Iscariot, Chilina Kennedy as Mary Magdalene, Tom Hewitt as Pontius Pilate, Bruce Dow as King Herod, Marcus Nance as Caiaphas and Aaron Walpole as Annas.
Completing the cast are Matt Alfano as Thaddeus, Mary Antonini as Elizabeth, Karen Burthwright as Ruth, Jacqueline Burtney as Mary (Martha's Sister), Mark Cassius as Matthew, Ryan Gifford as Bartholomew, Kaylee Harwood as Sarah, Jeremy Kushnier as James the Lesser/Priest, Mike Nadajewski as Peter, Melissa O'Neil as Martha/Maid by the Fire, Laurin Padolina as Rachel, Katrina Reynolds as Esther, Jaz Sealey as Thomas, Jason Sermonia as John, Julius Sermonia as James, Lee Siegel as Simon Zealotes, Leo Ash Evens as Phillip, Sandy Winsby as Andrew, and Nick Cartell, Krista Leis, Matthew Rossoff and Matt Stokes as swings.
Superstar has choreography by Lisa Shriver, musical direction by Rick Fox, set design by Robert Brill, costume design by Paul Tazewell, lighting design by Howell Binkley, sound design by Steve Canyon Kennedy and video design by Sean Nieuwenhuis.
The Stratford Shakespeare Festival production of Jesus Christ Superstar is produced The Dodgers and The Really Useful Group, Latitude Link, Tamara and Kevin Kinsella, Pelican Group, Waxman-Dokton, with Joe Corcoran, Detsky/Sokolowski/Kassie, Florin-Blanshay-Fan/Broadway Across America, REG/Caudwell, Shin/Coleman, Theatre Dreams North America, LLC.
For tickets visit Ticketmaster, or phone (877) 250-2929.
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Atlanta running back Michael Turner has been questionable all week against Carolina with a injured groin, but it appears he will play today, which should be a good thing for the Falcons because Turner has had big games in previous meetings with the Panthers.
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The Singing Detective
by Eric D. Snider
Grade: C-
Released: October 24, 2003
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By the time Keith Gordon's odd, extremely stylized remake of "The Singing Detective" gets around to its point, the audience is liable to be angry at it for dragging its feet so long, and for being so weird in the process. At least, that was my reaction, when I could muster any reaction beyond simple boredom.
"The Singing Detective," based on a beloved 1986 miniseries, is about an author named Dan Dark (Robert Downey Jr.) who suffers from a debilitating skin disease that has rendered him even more hateful and misogynistic than he used to be. His books are about a singing detective who, in a surprising move, is Dark's alter ego! And his fiction reflects his own feelings!
Downey's performance is rather good, moving between rage and sadness without warning, and the makeup work on him is pretty impressive. Mel Gibson is interesting as a peculiar psychiatrist who examines Dark. So no, the performances are not the problem here.
It's the style that does the film in. Dark hallucinates several musical numbers, generally of 1950s prototypical rock 'n' roll songs (already problematic, since the genre of the film is more detective noir, which is '40s). These are not staged with any particular imagination or wit, nor do they have anything to do with the story or characters at hand. They seem almost 100 percent random, and they appear at random times.
Furthermore, the film is all about Dan Dark sorting through issues that we figure out long before he does. It is a slow-moving, uneventful detective story, mixed with the only slightly more compelling story of Dan Dark and his gross skin.
Grade: C-
Rated R, a lot of harsh profanity, some nudity, some strong sexuality, a little violence
1 hr., 48 min.
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Creative leadership vs. Authoritative leadership
I know which one I want to be.
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I know which one I want to be.
But it's hard.
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Last week I went alone to the first Google Firestarters here in New York.
It was great. Really great.
If you haven't come across the programme, it's a format for Google to spend time with agency folk, in particular planners. Neil Perkin curates it, and he is a genuinely great curator. That particular gift combined with the Google brand means that you get a very good quality of people. And planners are cerebral, smart cookies working in a creative services environment, whose job it is to be very up to date and who work daily with translating lots of input into big ideas. Ben Malbon, Director for Creative Partnerships at Google, brought Neil and the Firestarters format over.
The topic was 'the new agency OS' – how do agencies need to be in order to thrive in this changed world.
The line up was outstanding:
Over the course of the evening, a few things struck me:
1. This is the center of the world ;-)
Of course, I would say that now that I live here.
But what a line up. I have followed Anomaly distantly for years and loved their hybrid model, their venturing. Percolate is very hot, a startup doing great things, so to hear from Noah was exciting. Vice is obviously interesting and significant, BBH provide some blue-blooded pedigree, and Almighty I confess I hadn't heard of, but I really enjoyed Ian's opener. It just felt like a superb proper proper event lineup. It was a privilege.
There is something of a counterpoint to that 'centre of world-ness' I suppose. 3 of the 5 speakers were British, which was kind of thrilling and embarrassing at the same time. Made by Many got namechecked 2 or 3 times and Clearleft, fellow Brightonians, were referenced once – mainly by Ian who was one of the Americans. So it was enlightening to me, and unexpected, to see the British influence at the heart of American agency-land.
2. Code as a metaphor or proxy for culture
Ian from Almighty introduced this idea that there are 'big' small agencies and 'small' big agencies, and in fact what we meant by this was a short-hand for their shared code, their accumulated history, their 'this is the way we do things around here' through assumptions and convictions.
He used that to talk about stripping back code, about hiring people from different backgrounds and other related ideas, but just that core nugget itself is interesting to me as someone helping to rapidly grow a software startup – given the challenges that creates around culture and given how tech-centric a big part of our team are.
3. The OS and the Apps
Sarah Watson had the most idea-sy approach and I warmed to that, particularly as she was last up. What she did was took this question of the new OS for agencies and differentiated between the OS itself – the platform – and the Apps.
Sarah's point, I think, was that the OS is like the agency's culture. And that efforts to evolve or combine agencies often concentrate on the nuts and bolts, the process and teams, and not on the OS. And they founder, because the OS is what fundamentally advances or holds back – this is the stuff that governs who is allowed to speak, what is prioritised, valued and rewarded.
Again, for me it wasn't so much about how well the detail of the idea was landed, but the idea itself. It was good to be reminded of the different elements at play in systems, and to sophisticate an organisational metaphor that continues to gain in momentum.
4. Getting back to big ideas matters
As I walked the 10 mins from Brandwatch in Flatiron to Google in Chelsea, I realised how little of this I'd done – feeding my brain – since I've joined just over a year ago. Understandably, it's been full on execution-mode from day one.
And being back in an environment where the sole focus was opening up and playing with ideas was rewarding. And useful.
I hadn't realised it, but I needed that. I have work to do that could easily be dealt with in a hands-on, bit-by-bit, executional way. Thanks to these guys talking about the bigger picture themes and issues in their world, I've now been reminded that getting back to the core of a problem, back to the underlying big ideas, is vital.
Looking forward to the next one. Thanks to Neil for the invite and Google and speakers for a great evening.
Balance is interesting.
I watch my kids in the skatepark, and the older and younger kids and adults too. Flexing, swaying, tilting; it's all about balance. There was an adult guy today, he had the basics but he just looked so stiff every time he came to land something. Too rigid to balance. And a tiny kid the day before – 4 maybe 5, seemed to be stuck to his board, so flexible were his joints. At times he would be lying horizontal after an attempt – like he was superglued to the skateboard. He was probably too flexible!
I see it at work too, in teams and in myself. Keeping balance in the priority list. Being balanced in ones reaction. In energy levels and health – burn outs before holidays, bounce restored at the return to work. Crashes at weekends. But also the bigger balancing act – rigour and process balanced with agility and instinct, risk and flair balanced with consensus and thought. And across functions – the interplay between marketing and sales, finance and HR, support and product. Planning vs execution. Most of this happens around us. We're part of it but it's part of something much bigger.
All of these things are in tension, are interconnected, pull at one another. Balance isn't static, I don't think it's an achievable or even desirable state. It's a promise, at best a momentary flicker in time. The plane is never on course, it's just always nearly on course.
(Aside: probably the most incredible masters of balance I've seen have been working mothers. They'll tell you what an exhausting never-ending pursuit 'balance' is).
My current challenge with balance is around short-term vs long-term. We usually take the long view in my team but it's coming to the year end and I'm desperately keen for the team's short-term results to give us the proud finish we deserve after the year of effort, growth and achievement. So there are I am, consciously and deliberately chucking balance out the window, and instead relentlessly chasing the short-term.
I've also seen balance in our company.
I've seen us sway and tilt, learning to land tricky new shifts. It's just as hard as any other kind of balancing act. Sometimes the changes feel like sine waves – a rise in chaos and ambiguity, the smell of entrepreneurial cordite in the air, and then a counter-wave, a tranche of new process and accountability, as the company lurches back to a more sober state, for a while…
The thing is, we need it all. It's all right. And it's all about balance. About how much and when and where. Its about forever tweaking dials. It's like cooking or conversation or music or – most of all – nature, of course. It's the growth that follows a forest fire. The art that follows a recession.
I love all of this, I have to confess.
I love the dynamism. I love the lack of knowability. And the bloody challenge.
And as for what to do, I think this is the best advice I've found in recent times, from Gianpiero Petriglieri:
Here's to balance. Shout when you find it.
Taxi driver just undercut a police car at speed while switching lanes.
Racing along a suspended highway and slowly realising the grey modern megaliths of the city skyline have encircled us and suddenly we're entrapped, caught right where they want us, in their metropolitan maw.
I've just come back from a wonderful, maybe even life-changing, 3 and a bit days in Shanghai. My first trip to China. I wrote those notes from the taxi, groggy, having just left the airport, nailing it down the Chinese highway.
And now looking back these are the themes I want to remember from the experience.
I had approached with the naive arrogant assumptions of a Westerner used to being at the centre of the world. I expected big web properties, but just with different names. I expected a sweet, developing marketing and digital community, behind but finding its way. I expected to feel knowing and confident, superior even.
What I found was a digital and business landscape moving so rapidly that even though 15 or so local veterans we met and spoke to are struggling to keep up with, even with their resources, their knowledge, their inside relationships and on the ground. I felt inspired, dizzied, shaken and admiring.
It feels like there are major iterations to the digital topology every 6-12 months. 'Weibo is dead!' we were told over and again. 'I go there now and again just to check what's happening' one of the guys we met told us. Right now the momentum is particularly with WeChat, a closed, timeline-driven social network owned by TenCent, Sina Weibo's major competitor. Brands are struggling to figure out what to do and we found the Shanghai agencies and social data players equally perplexed.
This market has been moving much faster than the Western market has. And we were speaking with smart digital veterans – people from companies like Ogilvy, JWT, We Are Social, Porter Novelli, OMD, as well as local outfits like NIM Digital and CIC.
In fact, just as we'd got our head around WeChat being the platform where the action is happening, we were told that mobile app vertical communities feel like the next big thing.
Chatting about the local talent market we heard a phrase that resonated: 'talent isn't loyal – life is moving too fast here'. Kinda sums up the speed and spirit of Shanghai.
Other differences that stood out:
Whilst Shanghai bustles with the noisy car-horns and weaving scooters and speeding taxis, it also feels very distinct from the outright chaos of say Delhi or Bangkok.
A high percentage of the cars on the road are recognisable global brands – like 80%. And many were Audi, VW, Porsche, Mini, BMW. Quite a jolt, actually. Yes, that's Shanghai – a wealthy bubble. But even so.
We walked to our first appointment on the second day, 35 minutes through a particularly smoggy morning. And what struck us as we did was how European it felt – like Barclona with wide boulevards lined with short Palm trees, neatly manicured gardens and small public parks with bamboo-shrouded paths and trimmed bushes. And the gawky sci-fi elevated walkway network high above the traffic had sweet, simple hanging plant boxes tracked along its edges.
The streets were cleaner than NYC, although there were patches of sewage-y smelling areas.
Perhaps its the European and international history of the place. Perhaps its the modern pace of innovation and concentration of wealth. But Shanghai doesn't feel alien or altogether different. It feels like a place of fusion.
A real global city.
The Chinese people we met were open, smart, knowledgeable, interested, savvy. I expected smart but I didn't expect the transparency, the humour and the generosity we experienced. Preconceptions. Stereotypes.
And in particular the generosity. Our colleague Xinglong was met at the airport but his best friend's best friend – someone he'd never met before. This friend Edward then drove us around from appointment to appointment for the next two days in his fancy BMW. Utterly humble (he is a successful entrepreneur with a digital business in North America). We were told, 'it's the Chinese way'.
The people we met were great. Very impressive.
Shanghai. What a place.
Developing people is probably the single most satisfying thing I have been part of in my working life.
I know that have helped some people to substantially develop themselves and I have helped other people move forward a bit. And there are people that I haven't really helped at all, too – people I didn't click with, people I didn't prioritise and people who didn't seem to want to or were stuck.
At Brandwatch I think I've focused mainly on 'results first' in the past year, on outcomes, and I've tried to nudge people and stretch them in ways that they could in order for us to better accomplish our goals. It's been a secondary goal.
In this second year I want to flip that around and put developing people first and foremost. I know if we can do that together – really grow and enable and unlock their creativity and drive – that the results will continue to flow.
As I was thinking about this, it occurred to me that the people who I've been able to help the most tended to behave in a particular way. They shared attributes or desires, even though they were all very different characters.
1. Want it
They all wanted to develop. And were prepared to take risks, expose themselves, try harder than just showing up for another day. It's so bloody simple, but they wanted it. Most people I find can tick this box off.
2. Make it happen
They all made stuff happen – they took overall responsibility for their growth. They bought and read books, they updated their plan, they took the steps and volunteered for the projects and pushed their development to happen. They definitely were not sat back. There's a big drop off from people who want it and people who are prepared to make it happen. The knowing-doing gap.
That's it…
Pretty simple. So all we need to do as managers is unlock in people the desire to develop themselves and then the habits and commitment to follow through on those desires.
Unfortunately, that skips over two fairly big blocks.
1. It's bloody hard to *make* someone want to develop, if they don't already
2. It's fairly hard to change behaviour in order to develop as an individual (in oneself or in others)
Maybe we could noodle on those two another time :)
Every once in a while I get asked for a list of good blogs to read (for people interested in the stuff I am interested in, I assume).
I'm putting them here as an easy place to point people to and, y'know, to share.
(Important aside: I'm noticing there are few women on my list, I dislike that.)
Do shout if something really good is missing.
Unbelievably, it's just a week from my first anniversary at Brandwatch. These are the things that stand out for me.
If my experience has confirmed one thing to me it's about the importance of teams. The quality of the people in them. The communication within and between them. Their environment, their happiness. Their sense of purpose.
The moments I've enjoyed the most over the last 12 months have been being part of focused happy groups doing great work and accomplishing new, difficult things.
The moments I've enjoyed the least have been where I've been disconnected from a team I belong to (I can think of three formal teams I belong to, plus more informal project groups) or where I've lost sight of what makes teams tick, and ignored the issues that needed addressing.
For me it's all coming back to people.
When I joined we were 140 people. 12 months later and we are close to double that. That is a lot of change. As I've said to people internally, in most cases it feels like the primary unit has shifted from being the office – like Brighton or New York – to the team or even sub-team. Which means that the affiliation and communication between teams and sub-teams, even within the same office, now requires additional effort and probably some new skills too.
It's very interesting and exciting seeing this arise as a challenge and seeing us find our way through it. (We also have a fantastic new chief of staff Tom who is helping us all out, which I'm delighted about).
Speed of change
One of the other things I am absolutely loving at Brandwatch is the sheer pace of change.
Every week something happens in our market or in our company which makes a material difference to the company's business or my team's work.
There is literally no time to get bored and I bloody love that. I love the dynamism. I love how we have to deal with it and seeing the people around me dealing it so admirably.
And yet most of us in the company would like to be moving faster, to be innovating more quickly, to be launching everything, everywhere, tomorrow (!) and that tension between quality and speed, and having to say no many times in order to say yes a few is really fascinating to me.
This 12 months has also helped me clearly see that, having worked in a startup, then my own entrepreneurial endeavours, and now a scaling startup, I definitely belong in this world. Startups for evarrrrrr (probably).
Business travel
Travelling for business is just a reality within the US. And in my role I need to travel to Europe and beyond too pretty regularly.
What I've learnt is that my travel comes in waves. September is a write-off – I'm at home for (most) weekends, but that's it. April and May were pretty full-on too. But the summer is quiet and there are troughs in between the peaks in which to recover and spend time getting back into healthy patterns.
I met a friendly guy from one of our competitors who travels every week within the US as a VP of sales. Because of the time involved he told me that over the years he has worked to reduce and compress all of that waiting around time as much as possible to the extent that he accepts that he will miss 2-3 flights a year, and if he isn't missing those flights, he's not pushing it hard enough and wasting time sitting in airports.
I can feel myself on the same trajectory. I was the last one on the plane on my last US domestic flight, and on the outbound leg I got through security with 30 mins to spare (still plenty of padding). I've racked some serious miles this year and am getting more polished at the business of travel. Although travel becomes a ball-ache, I love visiting new places and I love spending time with people face to face. It is part of the adventure I sought out and signed up for, and I'm lucky because I feel in control of it at the moment.
As I side note, I LOVE the BA mobile app. It's close to Amazon and Uber for me in creating loyalty through sheer simplicity and ease of use. Big fan. Quite impressive, given their not being a digital native company.
Health and happiness
Despite the intensity and change, I've managed to stay reasonably healthy and sane. I'm not as fit as I was a year ago – I haven't clicked with the way they structure the CrossFit programme at my local box, and bouts of travel mean that running has become a more reliable, easier to plan activity.
It sucks a bit because CrossFit is the most amazing way to be all-round fit IMO, and physically I'm not exactly built to be a natural runner – that said, I do enjoy it and I'm looking forward to running in a 'race' or too. (Race in inverted commas because I won't be racing, I'll be surviving :).
So I do feel grateful that 12 months in I'm genuinely happy and pretty healthy. You never know when you change job, country and all that other stuff.
Lastly but most importantly, the most amazing thing about moving country as a family has been what it's done for us as a family. We were already in a good place but there's something 'us against the world' about hoiking yourselves to an entirely foreign country where you know next to no one. I never saw that coming.
It's been beautiful to see how we've pulled together and been able to share in the joys of difference together.
So that's it.
A great 12 months. Learnt loads, done loads, and excited for the next 12 :)
I love being in teams. I've just always been that way. Through childhood, then especially playing rugby as a teenager and in my twenties, and then at NixonMcInnes where we managed to assemble a special team. I'd almost always rather do work and play activities as part of a collective.
And like many people, I love especially those moments and periods of time when the teams I'm part of somehow reach that higher level of performance. When everyone is contributing their particular strengths, giving everything they've got, and the whole thing is working together fluidly.
Those moments when you look around you and you're inspired and driven on by your teammates. And you suddenly realize that the individuals have become more like a single entity and you're part of it. Yes it's hippy-sounding and it's also true and tangible. You must've experienced that too. Playing in a band, dancing in a club, organizing a brilliant event, whatever.
What prompted these thoughts was that I was at the dmexco show in Cologne, Germany these last few days. An unusually high quality event. Enjoyable to be part of and impressive in scale. (Most noticeably, not soulless in the way that the large scale trade shows have become – and better than anything in London of the same scale in my experience).
And these thoughts of teams are prompted by how our team came together to put that on.
Before the event our design and marketing team worked particularly hard to make a richer, more engaging platform than before – so some great foundations were laid and our goal of going further was established too. And then over the two days of dmexco our German commercial team just blew me away with their attitude and results.
In my favourite moments during the show one of two things was happening:
– sensing the same without communication
Every time I thought I was going to need to suggest to one of our guys that there was a person nearby who looked interested in chatting, as if by magic a team mate would sense the same thing and engage. Sometimes this was a lot more subtle than it might sound, and that was the inspiring, exciting bit. And the initiative, the proactivity to keep the whole thing functioning – the bin being emptied, screens being fixed, laptops being swapped. None of this is glamorous or difficult. But normally there's friction in the need to spot, communicate, in the egos about who does what, that stop the flow.
– total contribution
Total effort all out. And ego-less. Our longest serving German team member gave out flyers and quietly supported from the edges. Our CEO gave product demos. Our head of client services lost her voice from talking to customers and prospects. Our young marketers shape-shifted into a salesperson and an IT / AV guy. And – to a person – our front-facing commercial guys worked so bloody hard. They smiled and they chatted and they won. Two days, everyone on their feet, extended periods of complete focus on other people, limited or no breaks. Our team gave their all.
All of this makes me wonder how we can do this over longer more stretched out periods of time. And across the boundaries of sub-teams. Our whole company is one team, after all.
Because I've experienced this team flow in a 60 minute new business pitch, in a half day workshop, over a two day show and – outside of work – in an eighty minute game of rugby.
Given that the teams I work with are located between 3 offices and working on programmes that can last weeks or months in quite different regions, the question I'm left with is can this state be designed for, given those constraints?
Can we reach this level of work zen and unity over an extended period of time, longer than 48 hours? Or is there just something about that compression of time and that essentially physical, face-to-face experience that best suits these moments? The reality is that very often we feel like we're a long way off this smooth, satisfying state.
And what are the ingredients? What conditions create the right environment for this to happen?
At the heart of this team experience was one person – Susanne, our marketing manager for the DACH region. She was the axis at the heart of the whole endeavour, from deliberately planning the event into her budget in December 2013 to being the last person in the event hall, waiting for delayed delivery guys to show up. The playmaker. The conductor. The team captain. Not in a strategic armchair, but working like crazed person in the thick of it.
And secondly, there was a complete sense of shared purpose, and I think our team in this instance wanted to prove themselves, too. We all knew what the goals were. Shared purpose. And we wanted it.
I love teams. I wonder what else is present when teams of people reach their full potential and put on their best performances?
Life is interesting now. I have many thoughts but no theme to wrap them up, so I'm going to slide them into this blog post, like pouring pebbles into a bucket. Feel free to look away.
I'm in my 12th month at Brandwatch, and I feel that I now fully understand the company, the market, the people, the dynamics. Obviously it hasn't been linear – probably a nice s-curve – but it's interesting to me how long it took. 12 months to nail it. As an aside, the company has doubled in staff size in that time.
(Knowing all of that how the company works stuff isn't necessarily helpful. I feel the value of fresh eyes, when new people join us. As much as I've understood the status quo, I am now part of it too. Gotta watch that.)
I have loved taking services-side experiences and skills and using them inside an organisation. Especially having worked with so many different types of personality and spent time learning about listening / motivations / organisational culture etc. So for me the transition from external (consulting/agency) to internal (client-side) has been very rewarding. Seeing things through. Being at the heart of it. I love it. I don't think I will want to go back to services, but never say never.
The only two things I miss from the type of work you do services-side are:
Still loving living and being in New York. We had a great summer (bloody hot, but unseasonably mild apparently – I shudder at the thoughts of 'normal').
My subway card swipe (no Oyster card here) still needs work. Really pisses me off. How can I consider myself settled before I can confidently swipe through with 99.9999% success?
Favourite moments are still where the melting pot blends ingredients that were just not available back in Brighton & Hove. Like taking the kids to the playground, and there being 5 or 6 families cooking BBQs for their kids parties, Puerto Rican music blaring out of proper sound systems, while I push the kids on the swings in the sunshine. Or seeing snakes and eagles on our summer holiday. The variety, the difference.
Some of my language has changed. I say apartment instead of flat, even to Brits. Elevator. Resumé. Soccer (I know). But not all. I say Surname. And said 'trainers' the other day – I'm never saying sneakers. It's a non-negotiable. Mrs and kids have gone further: they say chips instead of crisps (this upsets me greatly). Accent-wise, I think I'm still largely unchanged. Some gentle rounding of Ts, maybe. Our eldest said 'peanut budder' the other day. Our youngest deliberately pronounces 'wadder' to make himself understood at school. Sweet.
Perception – this is a bit abstract now, but I am becoming more and more fascinated by perception. It seems to be a central opportunity and challenge for us at Brandwatch, and principally for me given my role. And for anyone who has something they want to share with others. I can't really explain all of it, but it's about I suppose it gets called and relates to (but isn't entirely about) Positioning, a lot. It's a magical area. How people feel about a product, a company, a sector. I am looking forward to learning and playing in this area.
Face time – I spend the first 2/3rds of every day in Hangouts and on Skype calls, some one to one, many with multiple attendees. It is often a frustrating experience. This area is still so flawed, technologically, for consumers. What's great is that I have found that strong relationships can continue to thrive through these channels, but really working through challenges when the relationships aren't there yet or are suffering is very difficult. It's also hard to contribute to important, dynamic conversations when the majority of a group are together in a physical space and one finds oneself the voice from the screen. A challenge. (And the reason that business travel continues, despite tech).
Time for writing – I write best in the morning. Morning is now when I catch up on 5 hours of the UK's productivity (and to a lesser extent, 6 hours of Germany's) and start jumping on video calls with people. I need to find a way to hack this. I enjoy writing and I know it is a great investment.
And those are the thoughts I've been carrying around with me.
I'm starting to get a bit miffed with THE CLOUD.
I was on a flight, went to listen to some podcasts I subscribed to especially for time spent on trains, planes and automobiles, piped through a mini iPad bought especially for travelling, and yet none of the podcasts were available because the default setting is to stream them from the cloud.
Making various changes to my iTunes account has also resulted in my biggest commitment to Apple, my music library, first being uploaded to the cloud (iTunes Match) and then gradually disappearing from various devices. I got Genius support early on in the process, but one step after another it went wrong. Somewhere along the line I've overwritten the fullness of my previous library, and with it a chunk of my lock-in and goodwill with Apple.
Actually, what pissed me off the most wasn't losing the back-catalogue of music, but losing my beloved favourites playlist, which had over 600 tracks that I'd manually rated as either 4 or 5 star. It was my go-to music resource, whether head down in some PowerPoint or post-pub kitchen-dancing at friend's houses. The first transfer of music to the cloud and a new Macbook worked, but that tiny file of metadata was lost, and with it a slowly curated and highly personal compass that helped me find the best of my music. I would pay good money to get that playlist back. Not the tracks, just the listing.
And as I whittle down my inbox of several hundred emails flagged for reply or action, it gets to the point where the 100 or so left all contain links that point to the cloud – to Google Docs, to Soundcloud, or that need reference to my calendar (Google Apps) or just the straight good ol' internet. I'm in an internet deadzone, thirty thousand feet above the Labrador Sea.
The cloud is great when you're online, but it rather sucks when you're not.
I'm not knocking the internet. I love the internet. It's given me knowledge and connections and a job that I love. But there's a utopian feel to how the cloud is described. It reminds me of part of Honor Harger's utterly brilliant talk at Meaning 2013, where she talked about how the dreamy branding of the cloud belies its inherently physical nature of big ugly datacenters. A mesmirising and potent talk.
And I think what else is niggling is that some of the time that this disguises some of what is good for the vendor company than for the consumer. Like those irritating cards in hotel rooms proclaiming green credentials and asking the guest (quite rightly) not to drop towels on the floor unless they really want fresh ones, but pretending it's all out of the good of their hearts. Why would my brand new mini iPad default to streaming podcasts? I can't see how that benefits me.
What would help is simple. Better offline support for cloud-based platforms. Offline platforms that work intelligently and carefully deploy precious storage to maximize the chances of me being able to access what I want to. And more wifi everywhere. Good wifi, free wifi.
Then we can cherish the cloud more as we traipse around our busy lives down on the ground.


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The George Washington University
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Environmental & Energy Management Program (E&EM)
Fall 2001 (Volume 2, Number
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Begins for International Environmental Conference in Shanghai, China.
Several E&EM faculty members and students are helping to organize the International Conference on Energy and Environment, which will be held in May 2003 in Shanghai, China. The George Washington University will be co-sponsoring the conference with the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology... |
Involved in NEPI 2001 Environmental Summits. Several members of the E&EM family were involved in the 2001 Environmental Summit sponsored by the National Environmental Policy Institute (NEPI) during the period March 7-9, 2001, and in the NEPI's Contaminated Sediments Dialogue symposium, held at the National Press Club on November 1, 2001... |
Program Establishes New Brownfields Redevelopment Web Site. Utilizing the latest in flash technology, E&EM doctoral student Elvin Yuzugullu produced a new web site on GW's three-year, EPA sponsored brownfields research project. The research project, completed in September 2001 by E&EM doctoral candidate Jerry Sherk, represents the first significant attempt to quantify reduced pressures on previously undeveloped properties from the redevelopment of urban sites... |
General Discusses Corps of Engineers Environmental Programs at GW Symposium. Major General Hans Van Winkle, Director of Civil Works, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, was the featured speaker at a recent symposium co-sponsored by the GW Environmental and Energy Program and the American Society of Engineering Management. General Van Winkle discussed "Environmental Programs of the Corps of Engineers: What We Can Expect in the Future"... | ||
Daisy Ligon Defends Research. E&EM doctoral candidate Daisy M. Ligon recently defended her doctoral research on "Use of Dynamic Simulation and Other Computer-Aided Analytical Tools to Improve Environmental Impact Assessments." Dr. Ligon's research, was sponsored by the Transportation Environmental Research Program of the U.S. Federal Highway Administration... |
Number of E&EM Students Graduate in 2001 Ceremonies. The George Washington University graduation ceremonies in May 2001 featured a record number of graduates at the masters and doctoral levels in the Environmental and Energy Management program... |
on Cleaning Up Urban Rivers Published in Pollution Engineering Magazine.
An article by E&EM program lead professor Dr. Jonathan Deason appeared in the September 2001 issue of Pollution Engineering magazine... |
E&EM Doctoral Candidates Defend Research Proposals. During the Fall 2001 semester, two E&EM doctoral candidates, Teresa Pohlman and Abdulaziz Al-Buainain, successfully defended their doctoral research proposals before examining committees... |


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Season of Gift Giving
By Robert Gray Hawk Coke
This is the season when people start to make list for gifts to other people and family members. Personally, I have mixed emotions about all of this gift giving. We have collectively let this Sacred Ceremony almost go completely commercial. The commercial way makes it much easier to give gifts. We can just throw money at the ideas and forget about what it all means. This is not the spirit of the giving of gifts.
Let me give you an example. I heard a conversation that went something along the line of," I do not have time to go shopping for my wife. I will just buy her a Rolex watch, with jewels on it. She will be happy with that." Sounds like it's not important to him to put any thoughts into being creative. He thinks an expensive gift will make her happy. I have heard others make similar statements, "There are no problems that can not be solved by throwing enough money at the problem." Sometimes they are correct. But, is that what this season is all about? I think not!
A gift should be from the heart. Some thing that is well-thought-out and has both your and their personal feelings imbedded in the your choice, possibly a gift you have created with your hands or one you found that is meaningful. A special gift will last and may even frequently refresh the memory of the giver to the receiver. Yes, the Rolex will do some of this, but it will not have the complete depth a carefully chosen gift might have.
What do some of the great minds of the world have to say about this subject?
"Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The true gift is a portion of thyself." –Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When thou makest presents, let them be of such things as will last long; to the end they may be in some sort immortal, and may frequently refresh the memory of the receiver." –Thomas Fuller
"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give." – Kahil Gibram
"The manner of giving shows the character of the giver more than the gift itself." – Lavater
Remember that the receiver has a duty to receive graciously, also.
Robert Gray Hawk King Coke, 77, Cherokee, is the newest member of the Manataka Elder Council. Coke graduated from the New Mexico Military Institute in 1952 with a biology degree. He served in the U.S. Army with a tour in Europe.
After returning home, Robert Coke, entered pre-seminary school Austin College with a major in Philosophy. He continued his education by earning a degree in Bachelor of Science in Engineering and a Bachelor of Business Administration at Southern Methodist University where he later served on the faculty as an instructor. In 1996, Elder Coke was elected Chairman, of the American Indian Heritage Association and served as an ambassador for the American Indian Center of Dallas. Gray Hawk is now a semi-retired consultant.


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"In Chinese, the character meaning 'crisis' is formed from two other characters -- 'danger' and 'opportunity'," David Heyman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies told United Press International.
"This is the magic moment," added James Carafano of the Heritage Foundation, "We need to make the changes now before the current structure solidifies and the stakeholders get entrenched."
Heyman and Carafano's report calls for Congress to legislate radical changes in the way the department is organized, with a flatter management structure and the elimination of the four directorates into which it is currently divided.
"The department would be much better off if it was managed in a more private sector way," said Carafano. He suggested operational agencies, such as the Coast Guard, should report through powerful chief executives, directly to the department's leadership, rather than through undersecretaries, as at present.
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No matter how much time you spend watching TV and DVDs, it's always comforting to know there are still people out there who spend more hours in front of the panel than you. Many, many, more hours.
Given the wide disparity of price points we're seeing at CEDIA, custom installers are hoping to maintain their steady stream of upscale customers while embracing a category relatively unknown just a few years ago: first-time projector owners with considerably lower budgets.
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Sampling of sugar beets found similar yields as in 2007, 2008 and 2010, the Paris-based institute wrote in a report on its website yesterday.
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August 28th, 2013 11:34 PM #31Senior Member
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Current Favorite Combos (not necessarily all of my favorite names):
Alba Jolene, Avia Merrick, Hazel Deanna, Jovie Wren, Kendra Elise, Lux Athena, Margo Wren, Oona Lorene, Phoebe Alexis
Ansel Gregory, Byron Robert, Ford Jeffrey, Lyle Prescott, Seaton Leo, Solomon Jack *Solo*
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pet peeves: nicknames as given names; unconventional spellings; masculine names on girls
not-so-guilty pleasures: five-syllable girls' names; virtue and nature names; over-the-top antique names for boys
(if i repeat name suggestions in a thread, it's because i like them! no apologies here for repeats of great names! )
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STEP ONE: Complete the Quiz! For each question, choose the answer that best describes you.
1) Your dream home would be...
B - a stately old house, yet cozy and comforting
2) A project you'd like to do is...
B - research your family history
3) Your dream vacation would involve...
A - a balanced schedule of exercise, sight-seeing, and entertainment
4) You hope your kids will be...
A - responsible, hard-working, and clever
5) Your best subject in school was...
B - History or Literature
6) As a parent, you're good at...
B - passing down traditions while encouraging individuality
STEP TWO: Find out how many children you have. 4
STEP THREE: girl, boy, boy, & boy
If you answered mostly Bs, choose your first names from Name Bank B (below) and choose middle names to honor family members.
girls - Scarlett Amelia Danvers
boys - Holden Jeremy Danvers, August Malcolm Danvers, & Silas Edward Danvers
I love this game! So unique and so much fun!
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After his girlfriend hooks up with his best friend, Alton Richards is too shell-shocked to be hunting for new adventures. Recognizing his doldrums, his parents dispatch him on a strange summer assignment: His new job, four times a week, is to turn cards for his blind, bridge-playing great-uncle Lester. Aging, rich, and visibly frail, Lester Trapp is surrounded by family, servants, and nurses attentive to the old man's wishes—and will choices. Watching their mixed motives (and some of his own), Alton learns to discern the difference between illusion and reality. A winning trick from the author of the multi-award winning Holes.


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"Dream barriers look very high until someone climbs them. Then they are not barriers any more."
Lasse Viren
"Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be."
Karen Ravn
"every day is working day.till u not found your dream."
piyush joshi
"You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path."
Les Brown
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
"The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'"
Ludwig van Beethoven
"Men's thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through...whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it."
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19th July 2007, 09:00 PM | #1 |
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Peavey Heritage VTX - Bias Question
I picked up a Peavey Heritage VTX, and I was curious about bias adjustment on this design.
Here is a link to the schematics: http://www.schematicheaven.com/newam...ritage_vtx.pdf Is it possible to modify this amp to allow adjustment of the bias via a potentiometer? If so, what how would you wire it to aciheve the desired result? Thanks, Micah Walker |
20th July 2007, 12:27 AM | #2 |
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It doesn't need any bias adjustment
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The Output Tubes are cathode driven. See the notes section on the RHS of page 1. It says V(idle) which is the DC voltage across R155 and R159 should be 40mV max, 20mV min and within 10mV of each other (push pull balance). Since those resistors are 3 Ohms that translates to: 13.3mA max 6.7mA min 3.3mA maximum difference between sides That is the idle current for 2 tubes. U9A, U9B, Q6, Q8, Q7 and Q9 form an AC drive servo for the output tubes with a DC demand superimposed upon it for the idle current. The AC demand is fed into point "A" (bottom LHS of schematic) and the DC demand is generated off the +15V rail via R147 and CR39,CR40. All those other didoes and the secondary bias network R149, CR42, CR43 all influence the idle currents. The idle currents are extremely low with Tube dissipations around 7 watts total each side (3.5 Watts per tube). It also talks about a "compression effect" in the power amp which suggests that the idle current must shift with signal level. This compression effect is probably what Q6 and Q8 are doing. Certainly they only conduct on the peaks at high signal levels. The NOTES section says that to measure maximum power output then a link must be added to TP1 to defeat this compression effect. Without doing an indepth analysis I would GUESS that R149,CR42,43 set the idle current and R147,CR39,40,R148 set the level of compression BUT they are bound to interact. I'd be very disinclined to mess with it, and can't see any good reason to do so. Cheers, Ian |
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Thanks for the analysis. From what you said, I'm assuming that the bias is dynamically adjusted by the cathodes based on the current across the tubes.
This amp has a high power/low power which allows you to run the amp at 1/4 power or full power (~130 watts). Can someone explain how the circuit works? I'm new to this, but I would like to understand the logic behind it. Thanks, Micah |
23rd July 2007, 11:05 PM | #4 |
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The HI/LO Power switch simply switches the high voltage to the output tubes between +525V and +262V respectively.
In simplest terms, the effective "resistance" of the tubes doesn't change so with twice the voltage you get twice the current and since power is volts times current you get 4 times the power. Cheers, Ian |
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With all of the discussion regarding exporting liquefied natural gas, or LNG, due to the concerns with the reliance of Europe on natural gas from Russia, Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK ) has a hidden asset near the Gulf Coast LNG export facilities.
Due to an abundance of domestic natural gas, the government has approved several companies for exporting natural gas, including Cheniere Energy (NYSEMKT: LNG ) . These facilities are coming online beginning in 2015 with the majority of the facilities open by 2018 or later. In order to export up massive amounts of natural gas, infrastructure needs to connect to gas fields and preferably close to the Gulf Coast in order to reduce transport fees and prevent the network from clogging up.
Williams Partners (NYSE: WPZ ) recently announced binding commitments for proceeding with the Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline to ship gas from the Marcellus shale to the Atlantic Coast and the potential for sending gas on to the Gulf Coast. Williams Companies (NYSE: WMB ) is working on the Bluegrass Pipeline along with partner Boardwalk Pipeline Partners (NYSE: BWP ) to build a pipeline to ship Marcellus gas to the Gulf Coast. All of these plans sound great, but Chesapeake Energy has the potential to improve the economics of the Haynesville shale in LA and reduce or even eliminate the need to ship gas from the northeast all the way down to the coast.
Massive Haynesville asset
Chesapeake has the largest acreage in the Haynesville shale, located in a geologic formation in the North LA. Salt Basin in northern LA and eastern TX. The natural gas is located between 10,500 and 13,500 feet below the surface and covers an area of approximately 9,000 square miles. Chesapeake estimates that the play has technically recoverable resources of 251 Tcf.
Chesapeake's position in the Haynesville shale is industry-leading at 570,000 gross acres. It currently operates around 700 producing wells and plans to average operating around eight rigs for 2014. The company has an inventory of approximately 4,500 wells based on 80 acre spacing. The key, though, is the expected reduction in drilling costs for a well from over $10 million back in 2012 to around $8 million in 2014. Combined with sufficient pipeline and takeaway capacity already in place, the shale might finally have some advantages over the more prolific Marcellus shale.
Increased natural gas usage
Starting in 2015, Cheniere Energy will begin exporting natural gas in the form of LNG from the Sabine Pass in LA. The project will start with two LNG trains capable of processing 1 Bcf/d by 2016 and finish with six LNG trains capable of processing 3 Bcf /d when the project is completed in 2018. In addition, other chemical plants and export facilities are scheduled for construction along the Gulf Coast in the next few years that will dramatically increase the demand for natural gas.
The Haynesville shale is in an advantageous position with the proximity to the LA coast, but the other prolific shale plays also have numerous infrastructure problems. Williams Companies and Williams Partners won't finish the Bluegrass and Atlantic Sunshine pipelines until 2017 or 2018, providing limited ability to even ship natural gas from the Marcellus shale to fulfill the growing demands of the Gulf Coast.
Bottom line
With all of the moving parts in the natural gas sector, one can't always be sure what will happen in the next couple of years. One certainty is that natural gas demand around the Gulf Coast is set to surge due to exports and manufacturing facilities under construction, leaving producers from the Haynesville shale positioned to prosper from the increase in demand. Chesapeake Energy is the best positioned producer in that region, and the company is starting to increase drilling in order to situate itself for the growing demand.
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Bengal-speaking Siddharth Bose lives a middle-classed lifestyle in Delhi along with his mother, and sister, Shalini. Their dad had abandoned them years ago. Shalini gets married to Kapil Sharma and moves in with him, while Siddharth works as a DJ with his friend, known simply as Nanoo. While performing for a ceremony, where Punjabi-speaking Trisha Mallick is about to wed India's youngest C.E.O., Vivek Chaddha, Siddharth sneaks in to use the bathroom and finds out that the bride does not love the groom and is about to run away. He manages to convince her to stay put, uses the facility and leaves. He meets her six months later in Mumbai, and he finds out that she did run away, both are attracted to each other and start living together fairly harmoniously, even though Trisha is taller than him. Siddharth's mom approves of Trisha and hopes that their children will also be taller. Their humorous and idyllic lifestyle is shattered when Trisha proposes to him, and gets him to meet her mom, Shabnam, and rather snobbish dad, Veerbhadra Mallick, a retired Colonel, who does not approve of his daughter running away nor living with a wedding musician, who does not even earn half as much as his daughter, and also hopes to get his daughter to wed an yet unmarried Vivek.


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When the agency appeals and the case involves removal, separation, or suspension continuing beyond the date of the appeal, and when the administrative judge's decision orders retroactive restoration, the agency shall comply with the decision to the extent of the temporary or conditional restoration of the employee to duty status in the position specified in the decision, pending the outcome of the agency appeal. The employee may decline the offer of interim relief.
Service under the temporary or conditional restoration provisions of paragraph (a)(1) of this section shall be credited toward the completion of a probationary or trial period, eligibility for a within-grade increase, or the completion of the service requirement for career tenure, if the Commission upholds the decision on appeal. Such service shall not be credited toward the completion of any applicable probationary or trial period or the completion of the service requirement for career tenure if the Commission reverses the decision on appeal.
When the agency appeals, it may delay the payment of any amount, other than prospective pay and benefits, ordered to be paid to the complainant until after the appeal is resolved. If the agency delays payment of any amount pending the outcome of the appeal and the resolution of the appeal requires the agency to make the payment, then the agency shall pay interest from the date of the original decision until payment is made.
The agency shall notify the Commission and the employee in writing at the same time it appeals that the relief it provides is temporary or conditional and, if applicable, that it will delay the payment of any amounts owed but will pay interest as specified in paragraph (b)(2) of this section. Failure of the agency to provide notification will result in the dismissal of the agency's appeal.
The agency may, by notice to the complainant, decline to return the complainant to his or her place of employment if it determines that the return or presence of the complainant will be unduly disruptive to the work environment. However, prospective pay and benefits must be provided. The determination not to return the complainant to his or her place of employment is not reviewable. A grant of interim relief does not insulate a complainant from subsequent disciplinary or adverse action.
If the agency files an appeal and has not provided required interim relief, the complainant may request dismissal of the agency's appeal. Any such request must be filed with the Office of Federal Operations within 25 days of the date of service of the agency's appeal. A copy of the request must be served on the agency at the same time it is filed with EEOC. The agency may respond with evidence and argument to the complainant's request to dismiss within 15 days of the date of service of the request.
[64 FR 37660, July 12, 1999]
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Help RISD students establish a shared student+community art space and up-cycled materials depot in the heart of downtown Providence! Read more
Help RISD students establish a shared student+community art space and up-cycled materials depot in the heart of downtown Providence!
About this project
This year RISD Exposé & 2ndLife are joining forces to move into the heart of downtown Providence. Our new location at 231 Westminster will make both up-cycled art materials & fantastic art and design work created at RISD more available to the Providence community.
The move from a pop up gallery to a year round space is quite a jump & with all of this new time on our hands we will be adding a barrage of events like student film screenings, art parades, constantly rotating art shows, block parties, and workshops to the Exposé repertoire.
You pledge will fund:
1)$5,000+ Furnishing the space (to meet the needs of the rotating gallery and the 2ndLife inventory)
2)5,000+Workstudy( to staff the storefront year-round)
3)5,000 publicity/food/ for gallery openings & events
Additional funding will go to better furnish the space and for opportunities for students to get more involved.
At our new location 2ndLife's up-cycled materials section will be a more accessible resource, not only for students but also for community members. Students can take home raw supplies, turn them around, and create something that could go right back into the gallery space.
Exposé and 2ndLife will be sharing the storefront, gallery in the front, raw materials in the back (think reverse-mullet). The space will be self-sustaining after the first year. Starting with our grand-opening in September, we plan to bring a new spark to downtown Providence, and draw new connections between the city and RISD!!
If we meet our Kickstarter goal, RISD's Center for Student Involvement will pledge an additional $30,000 towards making this project happen. With a little bit of luck, a lot of blood sweat and tears & YOUR HELP, we can transform 231 Westminster into a beautiful and all around happening space, ready for rotating gallery shows and events.
Exposé is a student-run, student-curated art space, started as a pop-up gallery three years ago as a place for RISD students to show and sell their work. Non-exclusive and ever-flexible, cross disciplinary shows will highlight RISD student work from all departments, we are not all painters after all.
We will be hosting formal "white-wall" gallery shows, raucous art parades & everything in between. There will be fine artwork, zines and comic books, large scale sculpture installations, pottery, jewelry, design work, themed dance parties, local music, student film screenings, alumni shows, and block parties.
2ndLife is a nonprofit, student-run, upcycling program at the Rhode Island School of Design. We collect usable supplies and redistribute them back into the community. Anyone can come by and can take material for $ or in exchange for material donation.
Started in 2004 in as a student lead effort for more sustainable practices, 2ndLife remains one of the most active organizations within the RISD and the Providence community. It was listed as one of the, "Ten Companies who are leading the eco-movement" and a project that the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation would like to see implemented at, "any New Jersey university campus, better yet, how about in any New Jersey town." We have also been sought after for advice by students from Brown University, Pratt College of Art & Design, and most recently the University of California Davis, all of whom want to start similar programs at their schools. Help us serve as the national model for college material-upcycling.
THE TEAM & 2ndLife's current space at 351 S.Main Street//////////////////////
Have a question? If the info above doesn't help, you can ask the project creator directly.
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A massive hi-5 if we see you on the street. We'll know. Or ask for one at the opening.
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Hand-printed glow-in-the-dark Exposé+2ndLife poster (+ stickers & button)
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Hand-printed kick-ass Exposé+2ndLife T-shirt ( + stickers, button & t-shirt)
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A thank you mention on the website & a very special mystery gift (+glow-in-the-dark poster, stickers, button, & t-shirt)
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An original hand-made print or object created by a RISD student (& a thank you mention on the website, a special mystery gift, glow-in-the-dark poster, stickers, button, and t-shirt)
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An original limited edition print by a RISD printmaker + name added to our, "thank you" wall inside the storefront (+ a thank you mention on the website, special mystery gift, stickers, buttons, glow in the dark poster, & t-shirt)
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Custom portrait or drawing created by Emily & Sarah, your name added to our, "thank you" wall inside the storefront (+ a thank you mention on the website, special mystery gift, stickers, buttons, glow in the dark poster, & t-shirt)
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Custom work from each one of us! Jewelry + Glass + Print + Drawing & a family pass to the RISD Museum & a Museum Catalog (+ your name on the storefront "thank you" wall, a mention on the website, special mystery gift, stickers, buttons, glow in the dark poster & t-shirts)
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By Ben Geman - 12/18/12 03:47 PM EST
Girling said that should not matter, as the department's previous studies on the project have concluded there will be little impact on North American greenhouse gas emissions if Keystone XL is built because Canadian oil sands production will increase regardless.
The bigger question facing the State Department, which will rule on the $5.3 billion pipeline to southern refining markets because it would cross the Canada-United States border, is where the country wants to source its crude imports – its oil-rich neighbor to the north or other less-friendly producers, Girling told Reuters in an interview.
Obama is expected to nominate Kerry to replace current Secretary Hillary Clinton, who plans to depart.
But it is not clear if Kerry would inherit the review.
The Obama administration has said it plans to make a decision in early 2013, which means it could be resolved before Kerry is confirmed to the post.
Environmentalists bitterly oppose the project and have recently said they fear that the State Department review won't adequately weigh the climate change impact of oil sands development.
Kerry, as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has been cautious in his public statements about Keystone XL.
In late 2011 he vowed to "leave no question unanswered including every possible economic and environmental consideration," but he did not state a position on the project.


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Charming piece for flute and piano.
Krzywicki uses haiku-like poems by W. S. Merwin and authentic haiku by the great Japanese poet Basho to create five evocative movements, each descriptive of a bird(s) in nature at a particular time of day, the succession creating a dawn-to-moonlight cycle. While not directly quoting a given bird's song, hints can be heard throughout. Master flutist Jeffrey Khaner, who premiered the work in Philadelphia, has recorded it on the all-Krzywicki "Alchemy" CD (Albany Records).